[FWP] NTK now, 2000-03-31 (fwd)

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

----- Forwarded message from Lee Maguire <lee@flirble.org> -----

Subject: NTK now, 2000-03-31
Message-ID: <20000331152943.A94322@plum.flirble.org>

>> TRACKING <<
sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering

Multiple partitions ahoy! While you're trying to work out
what to do with the new, free, Be 5 ("did we say we made
money from our OS? Non, non, non! Je suis un internet
appliance partner!"), why not waste more premature bandwidth
on Perl 5.6, which at least has a chance of not breaking
everything you depend upon? The new version is dripping with
features we're not going to understand until the next Camel
book comes out, but to give you a taste: forking for
Windows, Unicode support (kinda), 64-bit support (kinda),
that whole sick code-in-a-regexp functionality,
"autovivifying file handles", a matching set of new
warnings and errors (including a "Y2K warning" whenever you
do something odd with the number 19), and, apparently about
15% slower than the last one. Our favourite feature:
not only has the version numbering system changed to a
"v5.6.x" format, the Perlporters have introduced a special
pseudo-type to support such version numbers, right damn well
into the freaking language. Sauron's work, I tell you.

http://www.be.com/
- the multitasking may be steady, but the business plan sure thrashes

http://news.perl.org/
- sensitive souls should wait for 5.6.1. I SAID ... oh, forget it

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-03/msg02269.html
- even Tolkien appears to be speechless on this one

http://www.netscape.com/
- and Netscape 6.0.0.0.0 comes out next week. It's like 1994 all over again!

         
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